ANGLING FOR GAME FISH
Bazaar Exchange and Mart, c. 1950. 12th edn revised. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (spine worn). Pp. 146, illus with b&w drawings (front endpaper lightly spotted; no inscriptions). More
Sporting Books
BOOTED AND SPURRED An Anthology of Riding
Adam and Charles Black, 1949. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original green cloth (boards lightly discoloured), dustwrapper (VG in protecitve wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 159, illus throughout with the compiler's b&w drawings (top third of front free endpaper removed; no inscriptions). More
HORSES HOUNDS AND THE ODD STAG
Standfast Press, 1979. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, price clipped). Pp. xi + 81, illus with coloured frontispiece by Brian Rawling & b&w illus in text (no inscriptions), More
THE STORY OF WORKBOY
Collins, 1960. 1st edn signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original blue cloth (poor - spine daded and corners bumped), no dustwrapper. Pp. 192, illus with b&w frontispiece and drawings in text (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
HUNTING WEAPONS
Barrie Jenkins, 1971. 0257656405. 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered dark brown cloth (bright VG), dustwrapper (top edges chipped with small tear on upper cover - otherwise VG in protective wrapper). Pp. xxviii + 401, illus with b&w drawings and... More
IN THE PINK
Bloomsbury, 1987. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 164 (no inscriptions). More
AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF RURAL SPORTS Or Complete Account Historical Practical And Descriptive Of Hunting Shooting Fishing Racing etc. etc.
Longman Brown Green & Longmans, 1852. 2nd edn. Tall 8vo. Contemporary elaborately gilt tooled half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, marbled edges and endpapers (spine label damaged; boards slightly scuffed). Pp. xiii + 1246, illus throughout with b&w engravings in text (inner hinges cracked; front free endpaper creased and torn... More
FIELDS ELYSIAN A Portrait of Hunting Society
J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983. 0460045342. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. vi + 152 , illus throughout with b&w photos (endpapers lightly spotted; no inscriptions). More
SIR ALFRED MUNNINGS 1878 - 1959 An Appreciation of the Artist and a Selection of His Paintings
Muller Blond & White, 1987. 0584111525. Oblong 4to. Original gilt lettered green cloth (boards a little tanned at edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (some light wear at edges - in protective wrapper, price clipped). Unpaginated, illus with 49 full page coloured plates (no inscriptions). More
THE FOXHOUND OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The Breeding And Work Of The Kennels Of England.
George Routledge and Sons, 1914. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Contemporary gilt lettered green half morocco, top edge gilt (edges rather scuffed; new pastedowns and endpapers). Pp. xix + 308, illus with 16 full page coloured & 16 b&w plates and 83 illus in text & 10 maps (front and rear prelims spotted; no inscriptions). More
GOOD SPORT SEEN WITH SOME FAMOUS PACKS 1885 - 1910.
Blackfriars Publishing Co, c. 1910. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original blind-ruled, ribbed red cloth with gilt lettering and vignette stamped in gilt and black on upper board, top edge gilt (Fine). Pp. xi + 280, illus with 10 full page coloured & b&w plates with tissue-guards and b&w drawings in... More
THE GAME SHOT'S VADE MECUM.
Adam & Charles Black, 1965. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper). Pp. 242, illus with b&w drawings and diagrams in text (preious owner's gift inscription on front endpaper). More
A HUNT AROUND THE HIGHLANDS On the Trail of Colonel Thornton
Standfast Press, 1973. 0950214825. 2nd (revised) edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. 239, illus with decorated endpapers, b&w plates & folding map of tour from York to Elgin and back (no inscriptions). More
THE FISHERMAN'S HANDBOOK Trout Salmon and Sea Trout with Notes on Coarse Fishing
Ward Lock & Co., 1954. 1st edn 2nd imp with corrections. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 288, illus with coloured plates of Hardy's flies and b&w photos and diagrams (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
FISHING NOWADAYS
Adam & Charles Black, 1951. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (edges rather chipped and torn - in protective wrapper). Pp. vii + 132, illustrated with black and white photos (no inscriptions). More
BY LOCH AND STREAM Angling Sketches.
Herbert Jenkins, 1922. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black decorated green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (partial loss at head of spine and small nicks at edges - in protective wrapper). Pp. ix + 300, illus with 16 b&w plates (previous owner's neat 1921 inscription on front endpaper). More
SHOTGUN SHOOTING Techniques and Technology.
Saiga, 1984. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper). Pp. xiii + 265, illus throughout with author's line drawings (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
THE FOXHUNTER'S ENGLAND.
Seeley Service & Co., 1937. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge red (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 254, illus with coloured frontispiece by Lionel Edwards and b&w vignettes in text (no inscriptions). More
THE ART OF ANGLING Now Improved with Additions and Formed into a Dictionary In Two Parts I Containing an Account of Fish and Fish-Ponds A New Art of Fly-Making... [&] II Of the Great Whale and Whale Fishery...
T. Lowndes, 1766. Revised edn. 8vo. Rebound in recent half calf, gilt tooled raised ribbed spine in compartments with gilt lettered morocco label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers and new prelims (Fine). Pp. viii + 293 + catalogue, illus with engraved frontispiece and in text (some light marks on pages; no inscriptions). More
GRAYLING The Fourth Game Fish
Crowood Press, 1989. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Finer). Pp. 224illus with coloured and b&w photos and map (no inscriptions). More
UPS AND DOWNS
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Limited numbered 1st edn (430 of 750) signed by author. Oblong 4to. Original pictorial red buckram cloth (some light marks on upper board - otherwise bright VG). Unpaginated, illus throughout with the author's pencil drawings on full page plates (endpapers with some faint tanning; no inscriptions). More
HOUNDS OF THE WORLD.
Grayling Books, 1979. 0906839009. Numbered ltd edn (114/600) signed by Sir Rupert Buchanan-Jardine. 4to. Original gilt lettered green buckram cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective wrapper). Pp. x + 233, illus with 8 coloured plates by Baron Karl Reille, 12 coloured plates by T. Ivester Lloyd & 24 collotype... More
A GUIDE TO SALMON FLIES
Crowood Press, 2007. 9781852232467. Reprint (2007). 4to. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 278, illus throughout with coloured photos (no inscriptions). More
THE WAY TO PERFECT HORSEMANSHIP
J.A. Allen, 1986. 0851313043. 8vo. Original card covers (Fine), dustwrapper (small nick at head of spine - VG). Pp. 254, illus with b&w plates (fore-edge spotted; previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
THE INCOMPLEAT ANGLER After Master Izaak Walton
Bradbury Agnew & Co. 1887. 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth (boards and spine lightly marked). Pp. x + 94, with b&w illus in text by Harry Furniss (some light spotting on endpapers; no inscriptions). More